Extreme Ownership
How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
About the book
During the fight for Ramadi in Iraq, Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served in SEAL Team Three's Task Unit Bruiser, and they came away convinced that leadership at every level decides whether a team wins or fails. Back home they ran SEAL leadership training, and after leaving the teams they founded Echelon Front to teach the same principles to companies. The book pairs firsthand combat accounts with lessons for business and family life. Each chapter takes one principle, such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command or Leading Up the Chain, and explains what it means, why it matters and how to apply it in any organization.
Tim Ferriss said he loved it, and Roger Ailes, then chief executive of Fox News, praised it as the SEAL leadership book readers had long awaited.
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This book has 6 recommendations
Tim Ferriss (Author & Entrepreneur)
Jocko is also the co-author of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win — which I loved.
Amy Brandt-Schumacher (COO/Docutech Corp)
Finally, a leadership book that actually demonstrates how to truly lead. Riveting, engaging, and free from the usual cliché platitudes, this book is strikingly impactful and will dramatically improve leaders of all types.
Roger Ailes (CEO/Fox News)
This is the SEAL Leadership book we have been waiting for. Poignant, powerful, practical. A must read for every leader.
Jared Hamilton (CEO/Driving Sales)
Extreme Ownership provides huge value for leaders at all levels. An inspiring and page-turning read, the leadership lessons are easy to digest and implement. It provides a powerful SEAL framework for action to lead teams in high-stakes environments. This book made me a better leader and enabled my entire team step up our game!
David Hua (Co-Founder/Meadow)
I recently finished Extreme Ownership. It's written by these two former Navy SEALs. They really talk about what it was like to fight in Fallujah and the different strategies and leadership principles that they had to instill, and really about giving your teammates and your leaders and managers ownership over what they're doing. Oftentimes it will come back and have accountability for whether it was a success or a failure.
Recommended by Mark Moses (Founder, CEO/CEO Coaching International)
Source: Interview with Mark Moses
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